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Did Nintendo make things weird?
“What a weird era of gaming we’ve entered.” So begins IGN’s Mark Ryan’s latest blog entry. The post itself looks at how things have changed in this current generation of video gaming, all thanks to Nintendo. The same Nintendo that was once huffing and puffing in third place to the well-oiled Sony PlayStation mega-machine brand and slick newcomer Xbox is now defining w...
This is what I look like when someone beats me with a straight draw on Clubhouse Games
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Shoryuken … meow?
In honor of WiiKitty. And I know it’s not really “Nintendo” per say, but Street Fighter 2 was a big deal when it came out for SNES, so here’s some homage to that. Oh, and I recruited this feline to kick the butt of the other one that ate my sensor bar wire a few months ago. [Via Joystiq]
Massive Child’s Play donation from Nintendo
The Penny Arcade-founded charitable organization, Child’s Play, provides game and toy donations and distribution for children’s hospitals. They just received a humongous donation from Nintendo. More pics and info are available in the post labeled “Movie Day” on this page.
DS Lite cake gets A for effort, C for accuracy
It’s a great cake, to be sure, but it’s not accurate. Where’s the heck is the infamous DS Lite hinge crack? Where are the pedophiles sneaking about on the outskirts of the DS cake’s 300 foot wi-fi range? These are the things I need to know before I bestow on this cake the title of “best Nintendo cake ever.” Oh, and apparently it plays a mean game of darts:
Wii: Bringing gaming back to respectability, one game at a time
I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t mention that in addition to hundreds of Nintendo games, some of my fondest gaming memories are of other fare like Soul Caliber for Dreamcast, and Halo for Xbox (a fighter and a FPS, respectively). With that said, here’s a cool column clip that caught my eye in a Blake Snow-provided Infendo news tip today: As a gamer for 15 years, I’ve had my f...
Open source conference lures in peeps with Wii, not so much with PS3/360
Our in-field correspondent Chris sends word from Novell’s open-source Brain Share conference this week in Salt Lake City that Wii’s are being heavily featured in an effort to entice attendees to vendor kiosks. Chris reports that even though both 360s and PS3s are being raffled away, at least six kiosks are demoing Wiis in an effort to lure in attendees. “No other consoles were be...
Current gen resembles Atari vs. Betamax
Information Arbitrage: I was trolling around YouTube and came upon three gaming commercials – one vintage ad for the Atari VCS 2600 (circa 1977), one current ad for the Wii and one new-ish ad for the PS3. After viewing them it hit me like a brick, and in a more intuitive way then I’ve written about previously: Nintendo has captured the imagination of families and casual gamers in a way...
Reggie says broken Wiimote strap issue largely bogus
More on that Reggie interview with the San Jose Mercury News: Reggie Fils-Aime says many of the claims of broken TV sets, due to flying Wii controllers, are turning out to be untrue. He said, “We have a process where those consumers are contacted and the investigation process goes through. I think it’s fair to say that unfortunately there are always consumers who want to make an issue out of...
Overheard on the blogosphere: "Nintendo is the old Sony"
A comment from Game|Life regarding Nintendo’s 54% take of US video game sales in February: So… PS3 is the new Gamecube.Wii is the new PS2. Sony is the old Nintendo.And Nintendo is the old Sony. That’s a compliment considering Sony’s 11 year dominance of the home console industry. Hopefully Nintendo remembers that if/when they become the number one game manufacturer again.
Custom Zelda-themed Wii on eBay
A beautiful fan-modified Wii is on sale over at eBay right now. At the time of this writing, it’s up to $700 with 29 bids and ends in about 8 days. Included in this piece is a custom LED mod for the disc slot as well as backlighting for the Triforce and shield, all of which are powered by the Wii itself (the Triforce backlight even has a quick disconnect which allows the system to still be d...
"Ask a Ninja" dude a former Nintendo consultant?
Our favorite retro loving fanboy Racketboy dug up a nice little speculative story from a 1989 Nintendo Power. See that ninja model posing for a Ninja Gaiden article on your left? He looks a lot like the “Ask a Ninja” vidcaster. So are they one in the same? Well, they have the same freakin’ eyes, nose, and brows, but unless the Ninja has gotten hairier with age (which is possible)...